Philosophy has in recent years become particularly self-conscious (even for philosophy!) about its methods, with a number of important books examining, proposing, and challenging the tools that have so far been used in the discipline. But this work so far has overwhelmingly played out in the domains of epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and to a lesser extent in the philosophy of science. Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, however, has so far largely - but not entirely - escaped this trend.

Invited participants have reflected on this theme and will offer a broad spectrum of approaches to this topic such as (but not limited to) phenomenology, conceptual-analysis, historical investigation, and empirical-scientific methods.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Kivy
Title: 'Music, Science, and Semantics: What Can "Science" Tell us About Musical "Meaning"?'

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A more detailed program/schedule will be soon updated.

Sponsored by the College Arts Humanities Institute and the Indiana University Department of Philosophy.
Co-sponsored by the Indiana University Departments of English, French and Italian, Germanic Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities.